Digital Twin For Construction Resource And Progress Management

Overview

In collaboration with the Polytechnic University of Hong Kong, a Digital Twin technology that supports construction management is developed in this project. The digital twin concept, paired with wearable and mobile devices on a construction site, allows up-to-date information to provide automatic resource allocation monitoring and waste tracking for a predictive and lean approach to resource management.

  • Digital Twin For Construction Resource And Progress Management 0
  • Digital Twin For Construction Resource And Progress Management 1
Research completion
2022
Commercialisation opportunities
Technology licensing
Problem addressed

The conventional construction management relies on sampling labour productivity data as a baseline to control the overall project budget and progress. Manual inspection, however, has limitations in gauging the overall cost and productivity. This error-prone process inevitably leads to misjudgement, unnecessary resource overrun, and post-event remedies. The industry is longing for a new management tool for better construction project management.

Innovation
  • The technologies transform the practice of resource and progress control with a fully automated and non-invasive solution.
  • The comprehensive solution leverages state-of-the-art technologies in computer vision, to enhance the construction quality management, as well as the construction resource and progress management.
  • Digital data is formed by sensors that continuously monitor changes in the environment and report the updated status in form of measurements and pictures
Key impact
  • This project contributes to transforming the construction management practice to be a population-based, intensive, and proactive process.
  • It helps enhance resource productivity, reduce resource waste and progress lagging, as well as enhancing project performance.
  • This application will provide accurate and timely statistics of resources and progresses by fusing multiple data sources so that critical data can be synchronously collected, managed, and used.
  • The technologies can help enhance the competitiveness of the Hong Kong construction industry and promote creativity and innovation, which is helpful in recruiting and retaining younger workers.
Award
  • Silver Medal in the 49th International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva in 2024
  • Outstanding Construction Resources and Progress Management System in Smart Living Partnership Awards 2022
Application
  • Construction
Logistics and Supply Chain MultiTech R&D Centre (LSCM)

Logistics and Supply Chain MultiTech R&D Centre (LSCM) was founded in 2006, with funding from the Innovation and Technology Fund of The Government of the Hong Kong SAR, and is co-hosted by the University of Hong Kong, the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. It aims to strengthen the local logistics sector and related industries by providing a one-stop resource for applied research and technology transfer, and to reinforce cooperation between the industry and research institutes to bring about meaningful and significant impact on the industry and the community. 

LSCM serves the industry by initiating research projects, contract research, as well as providing business matching opportunities, technology transfer and intellectual property commercialisation. LSCM initiates technology and knowledge transfer to the marketplace to promote industrial digitalisation, facilitate technology advancement and strengthen Hong Kong’s position as a leading logistics and commercial hub.

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